u/N4PSTER013

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Did I messed up the installation of refind?

I was following the official Fedora wiki guide for rEFInd installation (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Refind). When I reached the step where I needed to copy the kernel and initramfs files:

cp /boot/vmlinuz-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64 /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/vmlinuz-fedora.efi

cp /boot/initramfs-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64.img /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/initramfs-3.9.4-200.fc18.x86_64.img

I received a “low space” error on the EFI partition. I then realized the guide is from 2015, so it may be outdated. From what I’ve seen in more recent tutorials, installing rEFInd now usually just involves installing an RPM package.

However, since I already copied the vmlinuz file—and possibly only partially copied the initramfs file (it exists in the directory, but I got an error during the process)—I’m worried I may have broken something.

After restarting my PC, I got an “invalid signature” error and was redirected back to GRUB.

I’m new to Linux and not sure how to proceed from here. What should I do to fix this and properly install rEFInd? Shoul I delete the files I copied to efi/ or do something else?

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u/N4PSTER013 — 1 day ago